Sunday Service - 2026-03-15

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Yeah, it is an honor to be able to serve with with chosen people ministries and

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Let me let me just share this and I know this is you know going public, but so my wife is also

a messianic Jew a born-again Jewish believer

And I have three girls, but but in terms of the family I grew up in

Parents brothers aunts uncles cousins the whole the whole got some mishpocha the whole bigger broader family

I am still so far the only one in my family who saved and

My dad actually even recently

Said that he wants to come he's actually taking care of my mom right now on something, but he wants to come

I've shared the gospel and everything with him for many many years

but but he soon wants to actually even come one time when I'm when I'm teaching but I

It's important to know I grew up in a just a really loving Jewish family

I grew up what's called reform Jewish which really in Jewish denominational circles is is is

Like liberal Jewish if you want to think of it that way and so so my rabbi growing up a wonderful sweet man

But he didn't fully really believe that the scriptures were the word of God

But we had reverence for the scriptures and so this is how that played out

so

You know if we look at that the scriptures, you know, there's

morals values ethics

Right principles that have stood the test of time and societies have been built on and and so the congregation community

I grew up in was more or less kind of looking at at the writings of our

Relatives from a long time ago and almost kind of giving credit in a sense to like the wisdom of the ancestors

Right or the wisdom of the sages that way and and and you know with a hope that there might be some inspiration

You know with God and but not really fully believing that that God was real, you know

And so I'm gonna be sharing this in some more depth pretty soon

But I want you to know for me and for many Jewish people when it comes to considering the truth claims about Jesus

What we really do is we kind of put like a like a wall or a line in the sand

It will keep the Jesus thing over there and we'll stay over here and we'll make decisions as to

whether

Anything, you know related to him and those claims are true not really based off of what scripture might say or what?

he said, but we'll look at history and we'll look at different parts of persecution history and

Kind of keep that Jesus thing like I said on the other side and we'll decide that that he's not for us

By looking at different, you know levels of persecution and we see ourselves as survivors as a people and not just survivors of

Pharaoh, you know when we think about this holiday and we're gonna be going into the pants over and we're gonna look at the gospel

in like 18 different ways and look at the Last Supper and but you know if we think about a holiday that just happened which

Was Purim or with the book of Esther and you have Haman the bad guy there and we're survivors of that

But we see ourselves unfortunately as survivors of Christian persecution

And so for me personally, I honestly really did think that the New Testament was going to be anti-semitic

And I thought it was going to say something like let's go to Canaan to get the Jews

I literally thought that which sounds wild and a friend of mine

Who kind of came to believe about five months or so before me

He ended up giving me this book called more than a carpenter

How many people just have ever heard of more than a carpenter? So a lot of people it's wonderful

So CS Lewis had put together a way to present who is Yeshua?

Who is Jesus and this guy Josh McDowell created like an evangelistic book with it and it's basically they

Jesus really is who he says he is. He is the Lord

Or he's a liar or a lunatic

Because one of the verses that's referenced in this and by the way, I kid you not I read this while I was driving on

I 95

Okay, so

But one of the verses is John 14 sex where he says

I'm the way the truth and the life and no one comes on to the father except by me

By the way some fun trivia

John chapters 13 14 15 16 and 17 are all this meal

Someone read from John 12 right beforehand

But 13 to 17 is actually all this meal now if someone were to say to me beforehand who did I think Jesus was?

I probably would have said something like

Well, maybe he was a good guy and maybe he had some good teaching

I wouldn't have thought he was God at that point and then

I would have said and unfortunately things went into these anti-Semitic directions afterwards with the followers and but when I read

I'm the way the truth of life. For example, I

realized that it would be

It would be intellectually dishonest of me to keep Jesus in that definition or box that I had him in

He couldn't just be maybe some nice stuff. Yeah, there really was who he said he was or it was just Michigan

It was just nonsense and

Reading this book. I didn't get saved from it. But what it did is it made me for the first time go

I got to dip my toe into

into this who is Jesus question and

and

I never read the New Testament. I didn't want to and I ended up going to a Bible study

That my my friend kept inviting me. I kept saying no, no, no, I finally decided to go

And I meet a guy there named Ananta hejibu and Ananta was Hindu and he got saved and I'm asking him all these questions

And he's the one that told me if I've never read any of the New Testament to start in the book of Luke

Now it's very interesting. You don't really kind of hear that often and

After the service, we're gonna have like a little bit of an open Q&A time

Optionally for people there if you want to ask me about other parts of my testimony or why I'd be happy to share that

with you, but

But it's important to know I got saved the first day that I ever read the New Testament

And it was reading the book of Luke

That we can clap for it after what the Lord did

And

So it's important to know at the beginning of Luke you you actually get

I'm a priest in the temple and then an angel comes to tell him about a child that he's gonna have and this child ends

Up being John or John the Baptist now for me personally the name or the phrase John the Baptist couldn't have been like

more

Christian ease and less Jewish, but here he is. He's of the lineage of

You know of Levi's and priests and it was surprising and then you get to chapter 2 and that's what I expect

I'm probably going to be reading in the New Testament

You get kind of the birth story and the shepherds in the field and I'm thinking okay

This is the Christmas story I've heard of but then in Luke chapter 2

It actually says that Jesus was

Circumcised on the eighth day

Right, and then it actually talks about something called pitya haben, which is the redeeming of the firstborn where it talks about how

Mary and Joseph they went up to the temple and it says in Luke that they offered sacrifices according to the law of Moses

This was basically about the redeeming of the firstborn, but then you get into Luke 2

I want to go ahead and get this verse 41

It says his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover

And at this point, I just couldn't believe like, you know, I'm reading this Jewish story

And then at the end of chapter 3 you get one of the lineages the genealogies that actually takes Yeshua all the way back to Adam

And at that point

I finally put my guard down

because I still had a guard up thinking I'm going to go ahead and

counteract whatever, you know, I might be able to see or hear and at that point

Just read the rest of the book of Luke and God, you know

God just opened up my eyes

that night and I'm crying out and I kid you not I

There were four of us. Well, I was the only one that wasn't saved at that point, right?

Then I get saved, but I asked if we could kneel back down and this is not to sound spiritual

Because I had to confess something, right?

So so I asked the fact we could kneel back down

And my first sentence is I say God, I'm sorry because I hated your name

And

And it wasn't just thinking about God the Father that you know understanding that Jesus is God, right? He is God the Son

And I remember the first church I went to the next week

Open up a phone book and I go I think Baptist is supposed to be healthy

This is this is what I was thinking. I didn't really and

Hokus in Baptist Church, it was this little Norman Rockwell place in a school down in Delaware and

And um, and they were they were great. They were great. And then they said this to me

They said don't believe anything that you hear unless you check it with the word of God

And they also said and don't even believe what this church is teaching

Unless you check what's being taught here with what the word of God says

All right, and there really can't be anything better, you know for a brand spanking new believer

And I want you to know that yes

We're going to be going through a lot of the fun parts of looking at how the the modern Jewish traditional

Passover fader is expressed and we're going to be looking at what's biblical versus what's traditional

We're going to be really diving into what we see biblically and i'm going to steal this phrase that people use at Christmas, right?

Right that that he is the reason for the season right that Jesus is right

He's the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, right?

First Corinthians 5 for for messiah Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed

He's the he's the reason for the season and we're going to look at the Last Supper, but I want you to know

that

Not just here in this service

But I personally or our ministry we're we're here to just be a resource and of service to you

Okay, so I just want you to know that what was handed out earlier

Um, and people got this in the bulletin. You you actually have a brochure and in this brochure

If you open it up, it's got a little bit of a picture of me and a testimony and there's a tan section

This has information about our ministry

And there's one kind of panel and that panel right there can be torn off

If people want to just be a part of our prayer newsletter once a month, they send out a prayer newsletter

You can fill this out. You can put it in the back table. It's a way that we can be able to be in touch

Honestly, please to be able I mean listen I got prayed into the kingdom

I mean right so so I just so thank so you can want to get some more connection

But also there's a lot of free materials

There's tracks for example

Like why did messiah have to die and we're going to talk about, you know

The reason for the season here right or how would you know the messiah?

There's different tracks and other materials of what we do. One is called. I found shalom

It's a website of over a hundred actually we're doing like 40 more videos right now

So this summer there'll be about 150 videos all jewish born again salvation testimonies

And so mine is on there. It's like four and a half minutes. I can talk in four and a half minutes

Actually, no because they have to edit it and cut it

Right, right. That's how that works. Okay, so please

Gather but you also have a picture right here

This is my family on the back is my contact information my phone number my email in whatever way that we can just be

A resource or of service and I have one example right here

This is actually just a calendar. We have free calendars. There's books

There's a lot of free stuff there if you want to go ahead and you know

Be a part of our just just receiving the prayer newsletter

You can go ahead and get, you know free materials and things that are there. So please know that

We want to exist to be to be a resource now. This is my favorite verse period

And it's not just because it's such a great

Biblical truth right that we're saved, you know by grace through faith is not of ourselves

Right. It's a gift of God. This is Ephesians 2 8 and 9 right not by works

Meaning not by our works right so that no man may boast

But this is also really like medicine for me

Because i'm unfortunately the kind of person that you know, I might think about

Oh, how well was I doing an hour ago versus how well am I going to do an hour from now and and uh

So this verse helps me to put my eyes back on him and off of me

And my hope is at this time that we even have here together where we're going to look at the gospel

This also can just be another tool to help us to just trust in the faithfulness the redemption story

Um of the Lord so that way when we're struggling when we're dealing with shame or guilt

um

Whatever it might be that in the midst of that we can just turn and just trust in the character

and nature

Right promise keeping faithful nature of the Lord

And so that's that's really my hope so i'm going to go through a couple of things here real quick

But this is my family and my three girls

um, and um

I'll just kind of go through yay, Philadelphia

Okay, um, but just please know the Jewish community says if you do an hour radius of Philadelphia, there's about 300,000 Jewish people

So bucks county, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware county, Chester, Cherry Hill, etc

This is who we kind of you know reach out to right, you know the life of a of a missionary here

This is the congregation. I go to congregation bethi shoah

Jew and gentile one a messiah i'm going to go through these right, you know

It's great to partner with different Christian ministries. This is me doing college campus work

I used to work at a university for 10 years actually i'm gonna stop right here

If anyone is interested, this will be the fifth year in a row myself and another person

We run mission strips in new york city

So if you're interested in that or you want to know more about that. Um, I actually had meetings yesterday

uh two days ago i'm sorry about this and

We had about 60 people last year and we're just you know

On the streets and there's salvation and stories and so, you know pictures kind of share a lot vacation bible school a camp that we run

I don't know how close honeybrook is to here, but tell hi camp. We do we do a messianic camp there

This is inviting people over to our house as a real picture

There's believers and non-believers here for a passover meal

It's a great opportunity to be able to bring people over in a nice setting sharing the gospel in in context

other holidays

This is a good rabbi friend of mine in brooklyn

I share with him that yeshua Jesus the messiah. He tells me i'm wrong. We go back and forth. All right

All right, but you get the gist right all the pictures this helps, you know, kind of give a give a sense

But like I had said before he's a promise keeper

There is a redemption story from the beginning. He is faithful. And so let's dig into the Passover

Okay. Now I do want to just go ahead and say

Um, I appreciate where someone said that, you know, we're going to go into a lot of you know death here

Yeah, i'm going to highlight a variety of the different pieces that happened during the traditional jewish satyr

But really if you were to walk out of these doors thinking well, that was an interesting jewish experience

If that's your main takeaway, that is a failure on my part

Right because we're going to really be digging into how we see this at the at the last supper and uh, you know

Prophecy and scripture like I said, we're going to hit the gospel in like 18 different different directions. Okay

Um, but let me just start here

Okay

so

And actually actually i'm not going to start i'm going to go back one i'm going to read

I want to read from the book of luke. This is luke 22

This is one of the sections where where we see Jesus getting together with the disciples to get to

Gather the past to gather together for the Passover and it talks about for the feast of unleavened bread

But it says in verse seven

It says then came the day of unleavened bread and we'll talk about

About unleavened bread and what this means really soon when the Passover must be killed

And he sent peter and John saying go prepare the Passover

Basically, he says you're going to go into town. You're going to meet a man. They find everything the way Jesus said

Let me go down to verse 14

When the hour had come he meaning yeshua

sat down

And the 12 apostles with him

And he said to them with fervent desire some versions might say earnest desire

I've desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer

Right for I say to you i'll no longer eat of it until it's fulfilled in the kingdom of God

And then he takes a cup

We have some cups right here

He takes a cup and he gives thanks and he says take this and divide it amongst yourselves for I say to you

I will not drink of the fruit of divine until the kingdom of God comes

And then he takes some bread and he gave thanks and he breaks it

And he gives it to them saying this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me

And then he also takes another cup the cup after supper

Saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you

And so these are verses that we're kind of familiar hearing

And we're going to really look at the context context context of how this plays out

so that way when we get kind of to the

End in a sense of what the Passover remembrance and celebration would be we're going to be hitting these verses

And then looking at some context by the way, how often do you guys do communion here at once a month? Okay, wonderful

So what we're going to talk about

Next time you do communion. Hopefully this is going to be

a tool

to

As we examine ourselves and and and thank God right for the for the miracle forgiveness of sense

Okay, so now let's go ahead and do this. This is kind of interesting

So

Leviticus chapter 23 is like a snapshot of all the biblical feast days

It has a little piece of the different holidays and why am I kind of going to be focusing on this?

Because a lot of times we love to look at Passover, right? He's the Passover lamb

Here's a lamb shank bone, right? And we know he is the fulfillment of this right? He didn't die on any random day

He died on Passover at this point to be the fulfillment of this holiday

But this is not just some one-off

kind of fulfillment

This is part of a broader redemption story

And so there are holidays that happen in the springtime, which we're you know entering into there's ones that happen in the fall

And Leviticus kind of gives a snapshot. Let's just look at the ones coming up here in the spring and so you have here

Passover and then something called feast of first fruits and then you have something called shavuot or pentacost

Let me let me actually just go ahead and say here in Leviticus 23

God says that he has these appointed

Festivals these appointed times and so we're going to look at some of the meaning it starts off talking about the Sabbath

But then has the Passover there is the Lord's Passover now

We're going to go into that in some real good richness soon

but the Passover itself is really just the evening or the moment where there was the sacrifice

And the substitute of the lamb instead

so we know that

um, when we look at the different plagues and we have the last plague the the plague of

Of the firstborn and we're going to look at the story and the and the plagues but

Theologically, this is really critical. There was going to be death in every house

Egyptian and Israelite

God wasn't coming to save us as Israelites just because we're Israelites

It was only whoever was going to put their trust in the method that God was providing for there to be a substitute

A sacrifice of you know an atonement something in place that would take the punishment and then for there to be life and freedom

for the person

So he was just God was coming just to see if there was blood right?

They took some of the sacrifice from the lamb

They took the blood and they put it over the door

They put it on the top and the lintels and on the sides and if God came and he saw the blood

He would pass over the house

If there was a Jewish family that did not do that

Then actually their firstborn would take the consequence

If there was a family of the of the Egyptians right and of the nations that were there and they were like

You know what after all these plagues and things like i'm going to put my trust in this God of

The Hebrews right or this God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob if they were to go ahead and do that their firstborn saved

Right really critical because it was just who was going to put their trust in the method that God was providing

so the Passover

Technically is that event that evening and it kicks off a week-long holiday called the feast of unleavened bread

Sometimes when we say the Passover we're kind of like

Modern day thinking about the whole week

Like really you have the sacrifice and it kicks off this feast of unleavened bread

Now why unleavened we're going to read soon and talk about how when this is unleavened it is without

Sin actually i'm going to read it right now. So in first Corinthians 5

This is one of the classic verses that people like to to quote

Um, and we i've said it before for indeed Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. That's part of verse seven

This is what it says right before it. This is the context

It says don't you know Paul's teaching them that a little leaven leavens the whole

Lump

Now why am I bringing this up because if there was leaven or something, right?

It would then turn into more or less like like a roll

And what Paul's going to do here is he's going to talk about how leaven

Spiritually is like a symbol of sin

And something that would be unleavened would be without sin

And so when we think about him taking his body and his body broken for us even though this was called the you know

The bread made in haste this unleavened bread for his body broken is symbolically

about

sinless

But and so this is what it says

Therefore purge out the old leaven that you might be a new lump since you truly are unleavened meaning for those that are saved

Would then be able to have you know be considered sinless because of what Jesus did for us for indeed

Let me just read scripture for indeed Christ our passover was sacrificed for us and then it continues therefore

Let us keep the feast

Not with the old leaven, you know, nor the leaven of malice and wickedness

but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth

and so that's really where we are spiritually as to kind of the the meaning and so

You kick off this week of unleavened bread. Now. There is another holiday that happens in the midst of that week

It's called the feast of first fruits and so you see right here offering a first fruits when does it happen?

Well during the week it happens on the day after the sabbath the sabbath that's being talked about here

Is the friday night the saturday night sabbath?

I'm biblically here the first day of the week or the day after the sabbath is this holiday first fruits

So here's the key thing

Jesus didn't die on any random day

But on this day to be the fulfillment of the passover

He also didn't rise from the dead on any random day

But on this day to be the fulfillment of being the first fruit

This is just a couple verses from the new testament. There's others that tease this out. Here's first corinthians first corinthians 15

Right, but messiah or Christ. He's been raised from the dead

He's the first fruits of those who fallen asleep talking about the resurrection of first fruits now a few verses later talking about resurrection

It says each in turn. There's messiah. He's the first fruits

And then when he comes

Meaning the second coming those of us who belong to him will be able to have resurrection

So he didn't die in any random day. He also didn't rise from the dead on any random day

This is part of a broader redemption story now real quickly here. It's okay if people know this or don't know this

but how many people have heard that there are 50 days between the day that Jesus rose from the dead

And the day that the Holy Spirit came in at chapter two what we call pentecost

And tongues of fire over the people and peter goes out and about three thousand gets saved

How many people have heard that there's 50 days between these two events?

Okay, it's actually where we get the word penta for 50 or pentecost

Here's where the 50 days comes from from leviticus

Because from that day after the sabbath the day that you did this first fruits offering you're gonna count 50 days to get to

Another holiday it's called the feast of weeks. It's another harvest holiday. It's actually a pilgrimage holiday

It's why even in the book of x why did it say there that there's jewish people from like 15 different areas?

Roman mesopotamia and cypress like why were they all there because they're here for this day for this holiday

So he didn't die in any random day didn't rise from the dead on any random day. The Holy Spirit didn't come on any random day

I know i'm spending a lot of time on this before getting into the nitty gritty of the passover because this really helps to give

us this broader context

And

And so that way we I know a month from now

Some people right here. It's going to be the not on any random day. That's going to stick with them when they're doing communion

Right, and if that's what if that's then that's awesome. Isn't this amazing?

All right

So with that almost kind of like how Jesus was like, you know with with fervent desire or earnest desire to celebrate the passover

Maybe even seeing in the context

It'll give us a little bit of you know

Earnest desire and what we're going to do and talk about next

Okay

Now God over and over and over again tells us to remember remember lots of things in scripture

But tells us a lot to remember

When we were slaves in egypt to remember the exodus to remember the passover now

Jewish people on purpose will want to kind of put ourselves almost in the story

Not in and try to think about as if we were slaves and as if we were free made free

Not in some victim mentality of thinking about

slavery, but really in the sense of the verse

those

Those who are forgiven much love much

Right that when we can focus on

What it was like to be in slavery, then it actually helps us be that much more

Grateful and thankful for for for freedom. And so we're to remember this now. I personally love romans 5 8

Right, it's how God describes himself how he demonstrates his own love towards us

It's in this that while we were yet sinners

That messiah died for us

In a sense that he became the fulfillment of the passover lamb and sacrifice and substitute in our place that he became the method

God was providing to be the sacrifice the atonement the substitute in our place

Right, and I know a lot of times people love on the sermon and a mouth, right?

God has not come to abolish the law or anybody's come to fulfill but let's

Get it to some fun nitty-gritty here. Okay

Do you see how there's a plate and so here we have a seder plate you it's this way. Okay, um

The word seder just means order

So you're you're kind of going through an order of different elements an order of different parts of the story as part of the remembrance

Now what's important to know is that passover was never given

As a holiday to do something to try to get closer to God or to try to do something to impact our

Standing or our righteousness with the Lord the whole heart and spirit and purpose is actually just to thank him

For what he's already done

To thank him for being the deliverer. So back in exodus

When moses is even given the instructions from God and he tells to gather all the people and we could you know

There's great details there about on a certain day of the week

You're to take a lamb and examine it for a certain amount of days and on the 14th day of

of the first month you go ahead and you would sacrifice it and and

There are three elements or items that God actually gives as part of the remembrance

That he tells moses that this will be a part of the future

And so he says to eat the flesh that night meaning you have of the of the sacrifice

so you have the lamb itself

and then unleavened bread

And then bitter herbs which today we just have as horseradish representing that here

Technically, there were just three items or three elements as part of the remembrance that God gave

sometime

Between the time of moses and the time of Jesus other traditions got added in the celebration

including cups

So Jesus took a tradition

When he actually was even showing the spiritual meaning and talking about communion now

He then gave it to us now as something biblical to do

But what he did is he even initially took a tradition and then made it as now a a spiritual biblical, you know

Task for us. So what's very interesting is you have these different kinds of items and elements and then it says

It shall be when your children say to you

What do you mean by this service meaning in the future when you're celebrating it?

That you should say it's the Passover sacrifice of the Lord who passed over the houses of the children of egypt

And this is a very child oriented holiday. This was always my favorite holiday growing up

And so you have here a plate and it has a number of the different items and elements and we'll talk about what's biblical versus

what's traditional

But do you see how there's also like a scroll?

so I um

All jewish homes will have something called a haggadah a haggadah just means the story or the telling

And so there's different books or booklets and you go through and you're going through the seder or the order

Of this part of the story and the meaning of that item and songs and if you're at my house, it's like a three four hour

Affair really is this is actually the one I grew up with the Passover haggadah

Brought to you by the coffees of maxwell house. That's that's the one that I grew up with

This is one from um shop, right?

Okay, right and I I like showing this thing they put coupons

Side right? Okay. Um, here's a here's a children's one, you know with uh pictures and

And you know songs and and so it's very much a you're going through the order

Now what I also use in my house today is I do a combination of what I grew up with and something called the messianic

Passover haggadah or story or telling where we're also showing Jesus the fulfillment of

Of the day, but let's look at this real quick, right? Some nice pictures. Look, here's a here's a square one

They could be made out of construction paper. That's okay. Here's the table of a jewish family. You see them gathering reading getting ready

This is the image ari halvin. I this is what I think of when I think of the last supper

Maybe because i'm touchy feely

And you know, but more intimate a lot of times in scripture

We'll see that it says Jesus reclined at the table and I have right here a pillow as a little representation

It's actually in the modern jewish tradition to recline

And so interesting enough we happen to see that Jesus also reclined someone can recline

It's almost like a symbol of being a free man

Now this is the classic picture, right?

Oh, it's a little blurry. Sorry

There's something biblically wrong though

Now who am I to say? Oh da Vinci, right? But there actually is something biblically wrong

And that is if you were to look at the table

You would see there are bread rolls

Right

Not unleavened when the whole point is it's the feast of unleavened bread

And this is what paul is teasing out

so

I don't know from what aspect but but if we don't see

Not just the jewish bit but like like the biblical context there's things that can be missing

And actually that's part of the point

Of his body unleavened and broken for us

Right. So hopefully what we're doing here will help also give us some good context

Okay

All right. So let's go ahead and i'm going to mention some of the different items in some of the order

But we're going to get into some good scripture

But what does happen is you have candles and we'll light the candles

It's traditional but it's a way to kind of make this a sacra a sanctified time a special

It's like having a service in the house

And so the woman in the house will light the candles and it's kind of to sanctify the time

I have four cups right here

In the traditional jewish satyr

There will be two cups that happen before the meal

And two that happen after

At the last supper we see two cups interesting enough as how that played out

We see one before and one after

The tradition today is that we would drink the first cup and um, and actually, uh, it would be a burukhatat and I love

Blessed are you Lord our God king of the universe who brings forth fruit from the vine

And then we would drink

And this is called the cup of sanctification kind of like with the same heart

Let's make this a sanctified special time

The second cup

We have it's called the cup of plagues is when we get to that part of the story

The third cup after the meal is called the cup of redemption

This is a traditional name

Um, and you know interesting enough

We know that at least you know, Jesus takes the cup after supper to institute communion

And then the fourth cup is called the cup of praise

It's actually when we're singing songs and different sums and hymns and things like that

It's interesting we see in scripture

It says that at the end of their time that they they left out and ventured out with different hymns

You know and and songs

So this is just like a little bit of the um of what the cups, you know would kind of be there for it

now I have here a a um

Uh like a pitcher and

There are two different times in the traditional jewish service where we'll do like a ceremonial hand washing

Um, and you're you're kind of doing it over over a basin and actually nice tradition to even serve the person next to you

They put their hands and you're kind of washing then they take it and they serve the person next to them and kind of going around

Now we can't say this is a direct biblical, you know connection, but it reminds us

Of something that's beautiful from the last supper

And that is what did Jesus do towards the beginning?

Is he went around right and washed the feet of the disciples

Now we have to be careful not to say oh we see something

It's similar and we make it as if it's a solid bible connection

We have to be very careful. I heard someone use the word

Evangelistic let's not you know, we we don't want to stretch things

But we can be able to say it reminds us

Of this other really great truth

right

Where Jesus himself

Right the son of God not the son our savior our messiah our rabbi

he

actually

Models for us this example of real servanthood right and to go around and and to serve it's just it's just absolutely

It's absolutely beautiful

Now i'm gonna ask for a volunteer

I don't nobody really kind of knew that but can I get one volunteer that might come up? Yeah, you come on up, sir. That's right

And what's your name? Ben. Okay, excellent ben. All right

Now ben, I didn't tell you that you're gonna have horseradish

Okay

He's good with that okay, so here's here's the scoop

um

We're gonna look at some of the different items and elements

And I want to just kind of show here, right? This is the classic picture

Of what we would see when we talk about the blood

Over the door and what we're going to be doing is leading up to this part of of the story

but there's a tradition that's added

and

Um, here is some parsley for you

Sometimes I joke that you know, i'm sorry. This is not chocolate bunnies

Right now some people like to think this is like the hyssop branch

Do you see how he's holding a branch that way he would dip in for the blood and put it on the top and the side

some people like to say oh this reminds us of springtime a new list of life and

And um it this is just a traditional item that's added. So if people want to have their own traditional meetings

That's fine versus what's biblical. The point is we take this as just a reminder practically for us

We dip it into salt water

Oh, no, that's regular water

No, no, you got to try the really terrible salt water

But here's the deal you can have that regular water afterwards

Okay

All right

Because do you see these pictures of slavery?

Here's another one

Salt water

Our tears are salty. It's just to try to remind us of the tears of those in slavery

It's a traditional touch point to try to remind ourselves and put ourselves into the story

And so there's normally songs and blessings that go with it. But go ahead and and eat a little bit

And then that water's for you by the way

He's good

All right

So that's kind of one of the items or traditions now

I have here

What's called a matzah tash

It's just a pouch and it has different

pieces of matzah in it

And the tradition is to go ahead and to take the middle piece out the middle piece of matzah

And why the middle piece?

Lots of traditions right again. So, you know, some people think about well, there's

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or there's God the priesthood and and people we could think of father son spirit

Let's not worry about the you know, the tradition but you're to take it and you're to break it

And half of it

Gets wrapped in like a white like linen cloth

And

It is called the afikoman

It becomes like a dessert after the meal and that's a greek word about you know, then he comes but it gets hidden

And then there's a fun kids game where at the end of the meal

They go and try to find it and if they find it

they can bring it back for like a reward in our house, we like break it into a ton of pieces and

The kids ransacked the house, right?

And you know, they might get a dollar for this one or if it was a chocolate kind

They get like a few dollars for that, you know, whatever it might be

Now some people like to say wow when we think about this it reminds us

Of how his body or his sinless body

broken for us

Dies wrapped, you know in like put a put away

Those that

Find him or let's just say are found by him get reward and and that's great

We can't say that's a direct biblical connection as to that, but it can remind us of that great story

But I want to share something here. Do you guys see how the matzah is striped and pierced?

Now there are some amazing prophecies we're going to read a couple really soon

One of them about pierced is about a future time of jewish recognition

It's in zechariah chapter 12 verse 10 a time of jewish recognition in the future of Jesus as the messiah it says

I'll pour out

On the city of david the inhabitants of jerusalem

A spirit of grace and supplication prayer and they'll look upon me whom they've pierced

And mourn for him as one mourns for an only son

Or we could think about a great verse in in isaiah chapter 53, which we're going to read

Which is that by his stripe right or by stripes people have you know, we are healed

And these are great

Now most all matzah around the world is made pierced as just another way to make sure that you know, something won't rise

Not all matzah around the world is made striped

So we have to be careful

Not to make oh, this is an automatic, but what does this do? It reminds us

I know I keep bringing that up because remember this is what is true

and

But isn't this incredible?

It reminds us of these great spiritual truths. And so what we're going to do is this

Can you take a couple pieces of matzah right here?

Okay

and i'm going to take a couple pieces

and

We're going to have some of the horseradish

And then there's another yummy mixture. It's a brown mixture. It's apples honey nuts

Yeah, yeah horosets

It this other mixture is to make us think about like the

The consistency of like mortar when making bricks, but it's a very yummy mixture

What I want you to do. You don't have to put a lot on it's up to you as to how much you want to put on

But you want to follow your lead. Okay, that's fine. So take some

of the horseradish and then you'll take some of the

Of the apple mixture and then normally like I said, there's songs and things but go ahead and just eat

you know eat them any particular world well do the so here's the deal some people believe that the

the

Yummy mixture the apple

Horoset mixture may have been around at the time of the first century. Um, I don't think so

I think it comes here because but we know the bitter mixture would have been this is this is

This is the sop or the bitter herbs because this is the biblical one. So do this one first and then that one after

That's okay, that's not a question

Um

A fun tradition is to take so much horseradish that you start to cry

To associate with the tears of those in slavery

Okay

Okay

Not water is for you forever. Okay

Now

I need this so I can talk okay

What you just did

We see happening at the last supper

At least the bitter herb mixture. So let's read right here in mark

chapter 14

It's one of the examples here. So here we go mark 14

It says in the evening. This is verse 17

In the evening he Jesus came with the 12

And now as they sat and ate yeshua said assuredly I say to you one of you who eats with me will be training

And they began to be sorrowful and to say to him one by one is that I

Right and another one saying is that I

And the answer is and says to them

It is one of the 12 who dips right dips the bread dips with me in the dish

That's what this version says some will say the sop. This is the bitter herb mixture

And then he says the son of man indeed goes just as it's written of him

But woe to that man by whom the son of man is betrayed

This is literally the part of the last supper what you just participated in here

Where judas is called on the carpet as the betrayer?

This particular, you know item and tradition that you just did

Okay. Thank you. Thank you. You can go ahead and sit down. Appreciate it. Thanks. I'm pretty yeah

Now

Um

Let me kind of keep going with the story here

I heard someone make this joke and i'm going to go ahead and use and steal it but um

So you see here, right, you know moses or charlton heston, you know

He's there at the at the bernie bush and he's you know now to go to

Pharaoh, you know, let my people go and

Someone said that, you know, if we when we're in heaven if we ever get the chance to somehow

meet moses or see moses

If he ends up looking like pastor

Or me like if he doesn't look like charlton heston, that's going to be very it's going to be awkward

I'm going to say how that plays out

But here's the deal when it comes to the plagues the key thing is God showing he's the true God

Over the so-called Gods of egypt. Does that make sense?

like number nine

darkness over ra the sun God

Okay

And so to show he's he's the true God

Oopsie daisy. Did I just knock something over?

Okay, so

if we get right here to the

Kind of the reason for the season

There's another item on on the the plated. It's it's an egg. It would be a roasted egg

This is to remind us that the sacrifices that had to happen

They had to be roasted and it's a reminder of sacrifices and the sacrificial system

But I gotta tell you we already have the greater

You know item and element and symbol of sacrifice

So that's a traditional item that got added, you know, but we have the lamb, you know itself and so I love little cartoon pictures

That help, you know the reason for the season right, you know for he is

You know the one who takes away our sin and takes our place

Now what I want to do is remember how we have here

Right and we have the picture here and there's the blood

And it was whoever was going to put their trust in whatever in the method God was providing

now when Jesus comes on the scene right or when God the sun comes and takes on

Human nature, you know alongside his divine nature

That wasn't something brand new

As like like the new covenant or or the the plan wasn't somehow launched at that point

This is in fulfillment of what God's redemption story and plan was even from the beginning

By the way, a lot of people love it's an easy way to remember jeremiah chapter 31 verse 31

31 31 that's where it talks about behold. The days are coming declares the Lord i'll make a new covenant

Right with the house of judah house of visitor. This is where the new covenant promise comes

But what I want to do with us is read together

The granddaddy i'm gonna say of all the messianic prophecies

This is written over 700 years before the birth of Jesus

This is basically the sacrificial servant this is about the the

It's called the arm of the Lord

isaiah talks about how the arm of the Lord is not too short to save and about how he's going to go ahead and

Provide this arm and and we get a description of this arm

And by the way the couple verses right before what we're going to read in in isaiah 53 talks about a servant

And actually it's the word for like slave and you get this servant

But the servant is going to be high and lifted up

A a phrase in hebrew that's only used three other times in isaiah for God almighty himself

So you get this servant or slave that's going to be high and exalted

But then says that he'll be marred more than any man

And then it talks about in verse um, uh 52 13

Um, actually i'm going to go ahead and and read it. Let me just do it that way

Let me go here

Thank you for your patience

And i'm reading I think out of under king james, so

Um, oh the verse 15. I'm sorry. I know I was like, right

So he'll be marred more than any man and then it says so shall he sprinkle many nations that word sprinkle

In the hebrew every time it's used in exus lividicus. It's for two reasons

It's either

the sprinkling of blood for atonement purposes

Or for like an anointing sprinkling purpose

So this one that is a servant then is high and exalted but is also more marred more than any man

will have

Atonement an anointing impact on even the nations

And so with that context we're going to get a description of this arm this arm of the Lord and so here we have

Who has the arm who's believed our report and who is the arm of the Lord revealed?

We're going to get a revealing now. I'm going to read only a few of these different parts, but like

Verse two there was no beauty in him that we should desire him right. He didn't look like pastor

You know beauty right now

No, but like that wasn't what was going to attract us verse three. He though was despised

and rejected of men

Verse four, but he bore our griefs

Right and our sorrows, but we we esteemed him stricken

Right. He was wounded

for our transgressions

bruised for our iniquities

Right the chastisement or the punishment that brought us peace that was on him by his

Stripe or stripes. We are healed all we like sheep have gone astray

Everyone has turned to his own way, but the Lord laid on him the sin of us all

This is the substitute on our behalf. This is the method God is providing by the way

To be able to take care of all

categories of our sin

Not just pet which is a word for sin to miss the mark or a word called avone

Which is willful sinning but something called peshah, which is not just willful but rebelliousness

sin

There's only two times in scripture two things that can take that actual most rebelliousness

Sin and can atone for it one is the day of atonement sacrifice and one is this

This is what Jesus himself quotes that he fulfills

And he is the sacrifice once for all

It's the forever perfected forever the eternal. So let's just keep reading here verse seven

He's brought as a lamb to the slaughter verse eight is amazing the second half of verse eight

Talks about how he'll be cut off out of the land of the living will die

Later in the psalm it talks about how

He's going to live again and he's going to prolong his days

But the arm of the Lord actually goes ahead and dies

Isaiah cries out for the transgression of my people. He was stricken

His his grave with the wicked but he had done no deceit

You know no deceit in his mouth. Look at the next verse

But it pleased the Lord God to bruise him

This is critical because there's been something called deicide which is a claim of the death of God

And in Christian history where it'll be a blame

You know like like who to blame?

right, like um

You know, was it there was it the jewish people or was it the romans or was it the jewish leadership?

right

Well, who's the blame this pastor?

And me

Right our sin

So when people get into the blame game, it's really missing the whole point of the actual gospel message is that it's actually that

God demonstrated his own love for us that while we were he had sinners that messiah died for us

And not only that it's God is pleased

It also says in new testament right that Jesus he laid down his life willingly nobody took it

Um, uh pass can someone help me? Um for the joy set before him. He endured the cross. I can't remember where that verse is from

Um, is it hebrews hebrews 12 or hebrews? Okay, so all right

God the father pleased

God the son joyful

What's your name dear brother?

Bree

Why would God the father be pleased?

But his son

And why would why would Jesus himself even be joyful?

To go through all that

because breen

That is the way for you to be able to be forgiven

Right

It's a miracle now check this out it says that he'll see the um

He'll prolong his days, but I want to go to verse 12

Do you see how it says?

He poured out his soul into death. He was numbered with the transgressors

He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors

I started earlier by reading in the book of luke luke chapter 22 when I was um

You know talking about them gathering together for the Passover later in that chapter

This is what Jesus says verse 37. He's talking to the disciples

He says for I say to you that this which is written

Must still be accomplished in me

Jesus is going to quote something from the hebrew scriptures and say that's actually accomplished in me

Now when John or paul or others when they come up with messianic prophecies

Like those are as equally true as when we see Jesus doing it

But you know listen when when our Lord himself is actually quoting one

And what does he quote?

right here

Quote and he was numbered with the transgressors

For the things concerning me have an end

He's the reason for the season

This this is this is unbelievable

It's it's just absolutely awesome. Now. I don't know if we have kids here. We might and i'll go on to the next slide

But we saw that picture of him

agony and and

He's actually also joyful

in the midst of that

Maybe the next time someone here is doing communion

They're just going to actually be thinking about his blood poured out and his body broken

And they're going to think about how he was joyful also

in the midst of the agony

It's a miracle. It's an absolute miracle

And so a couple verses from the new testament the old testament about blood

Without the shedding of blood. There's no forgiveness of sins

In leviticus right here talking about how it's the blood

Right that makes atonement for the soul

These kinds of

Of reasons in a sense or connections

So let me just kind of go here. Um, i'll skip that picture in a moment

The season we're coming upon

Remember this is a

Story that has this redemption thing. There's the death and the resurrection and so forth. Listen in his death

He took on sin on our behalf and in his resurrection he defeats death

So that not only would we be able

To have the miracle of him taking away in that exchange at the cross. Actually, can I get two volunteers?

Can I can I get the two of you to come on up? Is that right? Um, not only are we getting the miracle

of

Of you know this exchange at the cross

Right he who knew no sin became sin for us

That we then might become the righteousness of God

This exchange it's a miracle

But not only that for those of us by grace who belong to him

Then can get the power of his resurrection to get applied to our life, you know in the future

Can you come on over here, sir? Is that right? And can you guys put your arms out like this?

Okay, they're the two thieves on the cross

Okay, they're the two thieves on the cross

Now here's the deal

Um

We don't know anything about their background except they were both thieves

They were actually also both hurling curses at Jesus on the cross

Let's say

First time this one ever stolen got caught

Let's say this one got to put your arm up

Let's say this one stole many times hurts children steals keyboards, I don't know right? Okay, right

Okay

One of them though

had a faith

Repentance experience one of them actually put their trust that Jesus would be the method right that God was providing

You know turns and but here's my question for you

Which one was it that you don't have to raise your hand, but I want you to think let me let me show you in scripture

What it says?

Um, think about it while I go look up in scripture

Which one

Nothing

Scripture doesn't say anything about that

This is beautiful for us

Because it doesn't matter what is the level or the depth of whatever muck or junk or sin we're coming from

Right, but the whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved

Right, thank you guys you guys can go sit down

So so I just want to say I know there's a lot of different songs and items and elements and

There's a fun thing that we do when we get to the the cup and we're talking about the plagues

But but I want us to really get into the right the reason and the meaning for the season. So now

Believe it or not in a normal satyr

We're not even to the meal yet

Okay, and we're doing but then we would have the meal so now let's pretend we're having the meal and we're at the very end right here

And i'm gonna I want to finish with communion in just a moment

But there are a couple things in the traditional satyr that happen after the meal that are really beautiful to highlight

That we even see some new testament connection to

Um, I already mentioned that at the very end we're singing songs and and and hymns and so forth

But I have a cup here

This is called the cup of elijah

Now this is traditionally added and this is a part of every

satyr every jewish

You know across the you know across the world

It's to it was a tradition added to help us think about the messiah and be hopeful for the messiah

And what it is is that elijah?

Elijah never died

He actually was taken up to heaven in the chariot of fire and at the end of the hebrew scriptures

Malachi the last prophet before like a 400 year kind of gap in time before the new testament writings

It finishes

talking about elijah returning

And that he's going to come before what's called the great and terrible day of the Lord the idea is that he's going to come

Before the time of the messiah he's a forerunner. He's an announcer before the messiah would come and we would get excited

A child would go and open up the door and we would come in and look to see if like the juice went down

You know or not and why would we get excited? Maybe hoping the spirit of elijah might come in

It's just because if elijah was really there or the spirit of elijah

We would get pumped because it means the messiah is right on his heels. Does that make sense?

No, I kid you not I kid you not about a dozen years ago. We're at this part of doing the home satyr

And there was a knock at the door

There was a pizza guy

Like someone from a pizza restaurant handing out menus and yeah, my kids love that all right, so

But here's the deal

We add that

Do you know that scripture actually already tells us in the new testament?

An angel and yeshua himself

That someone came as elijah in the spirit of elijah

It's John John the baptist. What's interesting is this in luke chapter one that angel that comes to

What would be John the baptist father who was a priest in the temple when he's telling him about this child

This is one of the things that the angel says in luke one verse 17 talking about John says he will go out

Ahead of the Lord in the spirit and power of elijah to make ready for the Lord of people prepared

And

then in matthew

One i'm sorry matthew 11 verse 14

Jesus is teaching about to the disciples about John and one of the things he says about him is

Indeed if you are willing to accept it. He meaning John is elijah whose coming was predicted

So here's this extra traditional piece. That's a part of all of our satyrs

There actually is a new covenant connection

and fulfillment of it

It's it's it's it's stunning. It's awesome. It's amazing. Now what I want to do is

As like a representation for us

Kind of talk about communion

So we have here. So let's pretend we're you know getting the afikoman right after us, but we have here the bread

right the unleavened bread

And then we're going to take the cup

after

After the meal and let me read right here because this is interesting. I know I read it earlier. I want to read from first corinthians 11

This is another time where paul is talking about this

Um, that's first corinthians 15 here's 11

This is actually historically written before the book of luke was written, but this is what paul says

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you

That the Lord yeshua on the same night in which he was betrayed

He took bread

When he had given thanks

And actually i'll just go actually i'll do the blessing afterwards. He broke it

And said take eat. This is my body which is broken for you

And do this in remembrance

Of me

In the same manner. He also took the cup

after

Supper saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood

This do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes

Right. He's the reason for the season, but let me continue here

Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner

Will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Thankfully this next verse says but let a man or a woman right

examine himself and so let him eat of the bread

and drink of the cup

So i'm going to do the blessing as a representation here and um

Whether it's even right now in your own heart and at another point in the future just to be thinking

Whatever aspect it is that God would draw to help us to be that much more grateful for

Um right for the miracle or forgiveness of sin

and so

Baruch atad and I alo heinu melach ha'olam

hamotse lecha min ha'aretz

Amen

Blessed are you Lord our God king of the universe who brings forth bread from the earth and thank you father God that we can take this

We can do this in remembrance

Thank you that by your grace

that um

You said that that you you would be numbered with the transgressors

That you would do this on our behalf

It's a miracle father God

And I pray that I would give you uh

Glory and thanksgiving and we do for that in remembrance of you. Amen

And then um

I'll just say it because I sang it before but baruch atad and I alo heinu melach ha'olam baray parihah gathan

Besham yeshua hamashiach in the name of yeshua. Jesus the messiah

But uh father God, thank you for your blood poured out for us

Amen

Thank you for these truths

Thank you that you became the fulfillment of it

And that you would even by your grace open up our eyes and our hearts to this

God I pray you would please have mercy on other people and the way you've had mercy on us on those of us here

that are saved

And anyone who's not here that saved God that you would even take this kind of communion time and

And show yourself to be true

You know what I am gonna read

Romans this will be our last verse. Let's go to

Do romans 10

Right the word is near you in your mouth and in your heart

That is the word of faith which we preach that if you confess with your mouth

The Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead. You will be saved

For with the heart one believes under righteousness

And with the mouth confession is made unto salvation for the scripture says

Whoever believes on him will not be put to shame

For there is no distinction between jew and greek

For the same Lord

Overall is rich to all who call upon him

For whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved

We do this in remembrance of you

Amen

Um

I'm just going to finish

With this one thing right here, and I know that we're running late. I'm sorry. Thank you pastor. I know with the kids but

um, you can also then think about how you

Want to um potentially adjust doing q and a or not q and a right?

Um, but I love I love this this book right here. It just says why yeshua died

Right why Jesus died and um, and it's a really quick read

and um, it's because

it's just

It's just a mirror

It's just a mirror. Yeah, I love this one. Okay. Who sorry if I blinded someone in the eye with the reflection of

That's all right, that's right Jesus can heal that

Right, I believe in healings for today. Okay, so

Um, yeah

Yeah, so i'll just i'll just pray and finish and end right here and and and please remember that um

I am here personally our ministry as a whole to just

You know come alongside and and um, I know I I talk about this but it's like call me or email me

Um, and you know, you could say, you know joe from landsdale or whatever

but uh, remember i'm just right here in the backyard, but um

It's it's an honor to be able to just be here with you

To just you know declare, you know these truths about God

and um and hope that this is what you know will

Will help, you know inspire you

You know to just trust in him

And his faithfulness and his promise keeping nature and especially as we even get into the season so

Father God once again, thank you father that you are good

And you are real

Thank you that you are also savior

And that you are compassionate and merciful slow to anger and full of loving kindness and truth

You

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